{"id":2062197,"date":"2023-10-10T15:28:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T19:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/special-counsel-pushes-back-on-trumps-bid-to-delay-trial-until-after-election\/"},"modified":"2023-10-10T15:30:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T19:30:21","slug":"special-counsel-pushes-back-on-trumps-bid-to-delay-trial-until-after-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/special-counsel-pushes-back-on-trumps-bid-to-delay-trial-until-after-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Counsel opposes Trump&#8217;s request to postpone trial until after election."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fspecial-counsel-pushes-back-on-trumps-bid-to-delay-trial-until-after-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2062197&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Photo\u2062 by Scott Olson\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>OAN\u2019s \u200bBrooke Mallory<\/h2>\n<p>11:55 AM \u2013 Tuesday, \u2062October \u206410,\u200c 2023  \u2064    <\/p>\n<p>In response to former president \u200cDonald Trump\u2019s \u200crequest to postpone his trial\u200d until after the 2024 election, Special Counsel Jack Smith said that\u2064 there is no \u201ccredible justification\u201d for doing so.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-2\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-2'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>This particular\u2064 case revolves around accusations regarding Trump\u2019s alleged mishandling of sensitive\u200d information.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThe defendants make numerous allegations regarding their access to classified discovery arising from the status of secure facilities, their clearances, and other considerations. Most of\u200d the\u200c allegations are inaccurate or incomplete; collectively they are\u2064 misleading,\u201d Smith\u2019s office said\u2064 in a court filing on \u200dMonday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653\/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.173.0_1.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653\/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.173.0_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">document<\/a>, prosecutors claim to be aware of \u2064the reasons why \u2062Trump is said to have illegally\u2063 retained a vast amount of national security material after leaving the White House, and\u200d they also claim\u200b that\u200d some of the data was much more critical than they had first thought.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThat\u2064 the classified materials\u2063 at issue in this case were taken\u200b from\u2063 the White \u200cHouse\u200d and retained\u2062 at Mar-a-Lago is not in \u200cdispute; what is in dispute is how that occurred, why \u2063it occurred, what Trump\u2062 knew, and what Trump intended\u200c in\u2063 retaining them \u2014 all issues that \u200bthe Government will \u2064prove at trial \u2063primarily with unclassified evidence,\u201d\u2063 the filing says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cWhether the highly classified documents Trump retained at Mar-a-Lago contain national defense information is a fact Trump can try to dispute, \u2062but\u200b it will hardly be the centerpiece\u200d of the \u200dtrial,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The government made the statements in response to Trump\u2019s legal team\u2019s arguments that the trial must be\u200d postponed\u200b since the\u2062 most sensitive papers, which call for security clearances and a secure location\u200b to \u2062be read, \u2063\u201chave not been examined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u2063 majority of the documents, according to \u200dthe prosecution, are already \u2063available to Trump\u2019s legal team. \u200b <\/p>\n<p>However, a small subset of them are allegedly \u200b\u201cso sensitive\u201d that they \u2063cannot be \u2064kept \u200cin a standard SCIF, or \u2063sensitive compartmented\u2062 information \u2064facility, and must \u2063instead follow \u201cenhanced security protocols\u2063 for\u2064 their transport, review, discussion, and storage.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThe special measures documents constitute a tiny subset of the total array\u200d of \u200bclassified\u200c documents involved, which is itself a small subset\u200d of the total discovery produced,\u201d Smith\u2019s filing claimed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The filing makes no mention of how, when, or why \u2064the categorization was\u2063 changed.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u2062 the prosecution,\u2062 the government is attempting to construct a facility in Florida that is safe \u2064enough to hold the records, but in\u2062 the \u200bmeantime, \u201cwith appropriate notice, \u2064those documents can \u200dbe couriered by qualified control officers from the intelligence community to a SCIF in south Florida\u2064 for defense inspection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s legal team asserted in \u2062their declaration that he had not yet had a chance to evaluate the records for\u2062 himself, \u200bbut Smith\u2019s brief suggests the claim is a \u201cred herring.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Smith\u2019s team is \u201cnot aware of any request by Trump to personally \u200dappear\u201d\u200c or to \u201cinspect any documents\u2014a request\u2064 upon which the necessary arrangements \u2064to do so can and will be made. And whatever delay\u200c there has been to date in Trump\u2019s personal\u2064 review of the classified materials, \u200dthe seven months that remain before trial is more than ample time for him to do so,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A Justice \u2063Department official claimed that a Trump attorney certified last year that \u200dall records with secret markings\u200d had been returned.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s \u2064attorneys had submitted a \u2063motion last week to dismiss the Manhattan district attorney\u2019s hush-money case\u2062 against him, as well as \u200da motion to postpone his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/special-counsel-pushes-back-on-trumps-bid-to-delay-trial-until-after-election\/\" title=\"Special Counsel opposes Trump's request to postpone trial until after election.\">current 0 million civil fraud trial<\/a> until after the election.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was scheduled to \u200ctestify in \u2064the lawsuit on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The former president maintains that the\u2064 four criminal proceedings against him and the civil fraud case are all politically driven witch hunts, and he also \u200bdenies any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed! Receive breaking news blasts directly\u200c to your inbox for free. Subscribe here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Hundreds of innocent Israeli \u2064men, women and children were massacred by Hamas terrorists. And \u2063now we are learning they beheaded babies.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Jewish News Syndicate editor Jonathan Tobin gives insight into the war in Israel.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Robert F. Kennedy \u200dJr. announces he is breaking from the Democratic Party and running\u2062 as an independent. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Israel \u200bis under attack at the helm of Palestinian terrorist groups, like Hamas. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>EU antitrust regulators \u2064are asking Microsoft\u2019s users and rivals whether Bing \u2062should comply with new tough\u2064 tech rules.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Shares of Arm Holdings rose 3% on Monday after a wave of \u2062\u201cbuy\u201d ratings from Wall Street \u200danalysts.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Joe\u200b Biden\u2019s administration is facing pressure from some lawmakers\u2064 to restrict American companies from \u200cworking\u2063 on a freely available chip technology widely used in China.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>OpenAI is exploring making its \u2063own artificial\u2064 intelligence chips and \u2062is evaluating a potential acquisition target.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> rnrn  <\/p>\n<h2> What is the basis for the argument\u2062 that the civil\u2063 fraud case against Donald Trump\u200d is politically motivated?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  He civil fraud case are politically motivated\u2064 and\u200c designed to \u2064undermine his potential run for re-election in\u200d 2024. \u200dHis legal team argues that the trials should\u200c be postponed until after the election to ensure a fair process.<\/p>\n<p>However, Special \u200bCounsel\u2063 Jack Smith disagrees with\u2063 this request, stating that\u2063 there is no\u2062 credible\u200d justification for delaying \u200cthe \u200ctrial. In a court filing, Smith&#8217;s office said that the allegations made \u200bby \u2063Trump&#8217;s defense team regarding their access to classified discovery were inaccurate, incomplete,\u2063 and misleading.<\/p>\n<p>The case revolves around accusations that Trump \u2063mishandled \u200dsensitive information after leaving the White House. Prosecutors claim to\u2064 be aware of the reasons why Trump illegally retained national security\u2063 material and assert that some of \u200cthe data is more critical than initially thought.<\/p>\n<p>The government argues that the majority of the\u2062 documents are already available to Trump&#8217;s legal team. However, a small subset of them is deemed so sensitive\u2062 that they require enhanced security protocols for transport, review, discussion,\u2062 and storage.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s defense team\u200c argues that they have not had\u200d a\u2062 chance to \u200bevaluate the \u200crecords themselves. However, Smith&#8217;s filing suggests that\u2063 this claim is a &#8220;red herring&#8221; and that Trump has ample time\u2063 before the trial to review the \u2063classified materials.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Trump&#8217;s request \u200cto postpone the trial, the government \u200cis attempting to construct a facility\u200c in Florida that can safely hold the \u200brecords. In the meantime, they propose that the documents can be\u200d couriered to a secure location for defense \u200cinspection.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth\u2063 noting that Trump&#8217;s legal\u200d team had also filed a motion to dismiss a hush-money case against him and to\u2063 postpone\u2063 his civil\u200d fraud trial. The former president\u2062 maintains that\u2064 all the proceedings against him are\u2064 politically\u200c motivated.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome\u2063 of \u200dthis legal\u200c battle will have significant implications for\u200c Trump&#8217;s political future. A conviction \u2064could greatly hinder \u2063his chances of running for \u200cre-election in 2024, while a dismissal\u2062 or postponement\u2063 could bolster his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>As the trial date approaches, it remains to be seen how the court will decide on\u200d these crucial matters. The case highlights the ongoing political and legal challenges faced by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>of classified information during his presidency. Smith emphasized the importance of a timely trial, stating that justice should not be delayed for political reasons. 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